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People started moving away from Solaris/SPARC in droves as soon as Oracle acquired Sun. An example: the "old" Sun gave me a loaded T1000 system to run SUNHELP.
by mrbill 9y ago
People started moving away from Solaris/SPARC in droves as soon as Oracle acquired Sun.
An example: the "old" Sun gave me a loaded T1000 system to run SUNHELP.ORG on.
The "New" Sun wouldn't even give me Solaris patches / security updates (which used to be free) without a support contract.
I had to eventually move the site to being hosted on a Debian box because I couldn't afford the hundreds of dollars they wanted every year for patch access.
It really chapped my hide. I'd even been part of the external OpenSolaris release team.
- mrbill 9y agoThe "old" Sun recognized and encouraged the hobbyist community - that if people played with older gear at home, they were more likely to recommend/spec it at work... Solaris and patches/updates, software suites (LDAP server etc) "free unless you want/need a support contract". "New" Sun after the Oracle acquisition: "Unless you're a business paying us money for support, we don't care, and you get NOTHING." So, people stopped using and playing with Solaris/SPARC at home, and eventually stopped using it at work too.